Ian Kershaw is widely regarded as the world’s leading expert on Adolf Hitler and the Third Reich. He is the author of the definitive two-volume biography, Hitler, 1889–1936: Hubris and Hitler 1936–1945: Nemesis, and he was the historical advisor to the BBC series, The Nazis: A Warning from History and Auschwitz: the Nazis and the Final Solution.
Kershaw was originally a medievalist. His first work on modern German history, in the 1970s, aimed to understand how German society had behaved under the Nazi regime. From this emerged his work on the Hitler myth, focusing less on Hitler’s own charisma or Goebbels’ manufacturing of Hitler’s image and more on the way German society responded to him.
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